Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners, 29 April 1778: résumé

Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners8

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Bordeaux, April 29, 1778: I have received your orders but cannot carry them out immediately; repairs will take another two weeks and more. Mr. Livingston will be my second lieutenant,9 and I am obliged to you.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 73.

9. In the commissioners’ letter of the 13th they had recommended Livingston as first officer, but Adams hoped he would agree to be second: ibid., p. 68.

Index Entries

You Are Looking At

Source Project: Franklin Papers
Title: Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners, 29 April 1778: résumé
Author: Tucker, Samuel
Recipients: American Commissioners
Franklin, Benjamin
Lee, Arthur
Adams, John
Date: 29 April 1778

Reference

Cite as: “Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners, 29 April 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0316. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 376.]